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May 12th, 2006

Sniffing out piracy

Posted by: Adam Pasick
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Hollywood’s battle against pirated DVDs is going to the dogs - and we’re not talking about last week’s report showing that losses were much, much worse than expected.

Figuring that dogs already sniff out drugs, explosives and human remains, the copyright cops are going K9 with Lucky and Flo, two black Labs specially trained to sniff out DVDs.

“For their first major live test Lucky and Flo were put to work at FedExs UK hub at Stansted Airport, and were immediately successful in identifying packages and parcels containing DVDs for destinations in the UK,” the Federation for Copyright Theft and the MPAA said in a statement.

The Labrador is a smart breed, but Lucky and Flo are not quite yet ready to sniff out the difference between a legit DVD and a pirated copy of “Titanic” on its way to a car boot sale or Canal St in Manhattan.

Now if they could only sniff out illicit peer-to-peer networks…

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In an attempt to thwart perverted husbands from pornography the SMAA or (Soccer Mom Association of America) trained dogs to Sniff out porn dvds, then proceeded to replace them with Mormon DVD bibles.

- Posted by Daniel

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